Safety and Fire Engineering 

General Education Requirement
Up to Safety and Fire Engineering Technology Program

General education program is commonly referred to as the core curriculum because it is the central foundation of intellectual development and the college experience.  The general education requirements at UH-D are aimed towards providing students the skills to demonstrate:

• An ability to view events from a variety of perspectives including perspectives fro different points of time, cultures, people, and from that of the physical world;

• An awareness of the ways people pursue knowledge including knowledge of scientific standards, ethical standards, standards used in the Arts and Humanities and knowledge of new technologies; and

• An ability to communicate clearly and effectively and make use of different media for the transmission and processing of information.

Core Curriculum                                              UHD Core      

Component Area                    SCHs                   Course Options

Communications

   English rhetoric/

      Composition                       6                      ENG 1301, 1302

  Speech                                   3                      Any speech course

Mathematics                            3                      MATH 1301, 1310, or

                                                                        any other college-level

                                                                        mathematics course

Natural Sciences                     6                      Two lecture/laboratory

                                                                        courses from BIOL, CHEM,

                                                                        GEOL, or PHYS

Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts

  Fine Arts                                3                      One course from ART, DRA,

                                                                        MUS

  English Literature                    3                      Any sophomore literature

                                                                        Course

Social and Behavioral Sciences

  U.S. History                           6                      Two courses selected from

                                                                        HIST 1305, 1306, 2303,

                                                                        And 2309

  Political Science                      6                      POLS 2303, 2304

  Social/Behavioral

       Science                             3                      One course selected from

                                                                        ANTH 2301, 2302, CJ 1301;

                                                                        ECO 1301; GEOG 1301;

                                                                        1302; PSY 1303; or SOC

                                                                        1303

Computer Literacy                   3                      One course selected from

                                                                        CIS 1301; CS 1305, 1408,

                                                                        1410; ENGR 1400;

                                                                        HUM 2305

Total Hours                              42

*The above information was recreated from the UH-D catalog.

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